Category Archive: How-To

Tron Legacy Costume

As promised, this is the first post about our Halloween costume contest winners.  Ian and his dad, Robby, won with an awesome Tron Legacy costume (that’s better than the movie IMHO).  Wanna know how they did it?  Robby was kind enough to write up the following information to be shared on the site.  Take it …

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Jason Voorhees Costume

What do you do when the Halloween store hockey masks just don’t do it for you anymore?  When the plastic machetes no longer fit the bill?  You move on to a more screen accurate Jason, that’s what! The first thing you need to do is pick a Jason.  ANY Jason.  Just don’t pick Jason Alexander …

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John Marston Costume from Red Dead Redemption

John Marston rocks in Red Dead Redemption, so I put together a costume based on his fresh-off-the-train look.  Of course, you can unlock lots of other costumes for John in the game, but for my money, this one is the best…the one you think of when you think of Marston.  Depending on the content of …

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The Old Electrobinoculars Tutorial is BACK!

Way back when, I made a do-it-yourself tutorial for Star Wars Electrobinoculars that I hosted on my other site, freakengine.com. Since then, I’ve turned FE into a movie review site and haven’t had this tutorial posted anywhere. Well, what better place than costumebot?  Check it out HERE.

Quick, Cool & Cheap Halloween Costume – Dead Star Trek Red Shirt

Star Trek came back into our lives this year for better or worse.  The great thing is that it makes this a really cool Halloween costume.  I’ve chosen one of the lesser known characters for this tutorial – the doomed red shirt.  You know the ones.  Every time a crewman you’ve never seen before beams …

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